DOS ain't dead - Debugging and mapping functions (MS Linker)

Debugging and mapping functions (MS Linker) (Developers)

posted by lifelike, 21.03.2025, 20:12

> https://ladsoft.tripod.com/grdb_debugger.html
>
> > GRDB has built in support for symbol tables. One way of getting
> > the symbol tables is by using the MKSYM program to parse a map
> > file from one of the major assemblers. The VALX linker, which
> > is distributed as part of the CC386 compiler package, also is
> > able to generate the kinds of symbol tables GRDB uses.

Thanks! Running MKSYM and then GRDB worked. I can find my functions. However since it is a graphical application I try to test it gets a bit messy and ruins the screen. A dual-monitor set up with a monochrome monitor for debugging seems possible, but I am not sure if any emulator supports that?

Back to my workaround with hardcoding some interrupt calls in the code I want to have breakpoints in for now.

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